Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation

So did I, so simple yet so far away for me haha!!!


Asleep.

Yes, asleep.
When sb is a hammered head, what does it mean? Hammered like by a blacksmith.

Somebody has been beaten down? By one problem after another for example.

Sorry, no - it means a blockhead. In another thread I refered to hammers - młoty - morons.

to extinguish/put sb out.

Ok thanks.


To subdue someone so that they lose all enthusiasm and become silent?

Yes, very good! :):):)

to spoil sb`s blood.

To really annoy someone?

Yes, persistently, in a continual manner.

to be on the bubble

Drunk? Under the influence of alcohol?

Yes, perfect. You are so fast I am slowly coming to the end of the book, Fortunately, there is another one waiting. :):)

when sb is with bones, what does it mean?

At first I confused this with at the bone... which is also kind of counter intuitive...

They're hanging out in graveyards ;) Nope, no idea with this one. There are a few Polish idioms about bones, but I don't know this one. I only know these:

czuć w kościach, rozeszło się po kościach, policzyć komuś kości.

Chemi, you have started joking! I can`t recongise you. :)


to feel it in the bones/ it gets spread over the bones/to count sb`s bones. Good ones - pity you didn`t translate them. :)

Nope, a guy, sometimes boy (still about an adult male) with bones means they are reliable, responsible, organised and such. The opposite to flak without bones. hahhaa

I do that quite often in real life...........on PF there isn't too much to joke about ;)


They weren't part of the question though.


Ok, thanks.

So what does 'at the bone' mean?

I haven't heard that before either. Unless it is to do with the deepest level of something e.g ( cut ) to the bone, down to the bone etc. Maybe Pawian knows.

Count sb`s bones - actually, it is porachować, not policzyć - to beat sb up.


Aah, we didn`t know it was a riddle. At the bone means sb is plump -przy kości.

And I totally don't get the logic of that.... unless it means someone gnawing at bones to get all the meat they can?

Or is it sarcastic?

Explain....

It is quite easy - przy kości means at the bone as you said. What is at the bone? Meat and fat. So, a plump person hasn`t got only bones, but also sth more at the bone.


Flesh, of course. Sometimes I don`t think. ]

to tamp sb into a bottle

Nabić kogoś w butelkę. I think this is the same as to turn somebody into a horse. To dupe someone, make them look foolish, deliberately mislead etc

Yes!


Not the dog, not the dog.

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A new one:

Jump at the sun with a hoe.

@Chemikiem
Wyskoczyć z motyką na Słońce

@ NoToForeigners

That's the original Polish, although I know it as ' porywać się z motyką na słońce'.
The point of this thread is that the original Polish has already been translated into English. The meaning then has to be guessed.

For example:

Not my circus, not my monkey. That is the English translation of ' Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy'
It means 'not my business, not my problem'.

So what has to be guessed is the English meaning of ' Jump at the sun with a hoe'.

I'm fairly sure that's a Polish translation of a German expression 'Nicht mein Zirkus, nicht meine Affen'

Really? I always thought it was Polish. There is an equivalent German idiom for not my problem/business, and it's " Das ist nicht mein Bier".

Moving on though, have you any idea of the answer to post 802?

Well it exists in German too and German to Polish is more likely than the reverse.


To take on an impossible task? or to try to do something difficult without enough training/education?

Yep, or to bite off more than one can chew. Well done!

A new one:

Where the devil says goodnight.

The middle of nowhere. Out in the boonies.